Facebook ^[1] just decided to get everyone’s attention and waste some more time by providing users with a so called vanity URL ^[2], however for us that is not really exciting because practically ever social networking site has been doing it for a really long long time now.

Stumble Upon gives users a sub-domain on their website, Twitter ^[3] has been giving users a folder, Linked In has been doing the same for ages, Tumblr has a sub-domain and even allows users to use their own domain name, Posterous does the same as Tumblr, Flickr ^[4] has it, Digg has it, Friendfeed has it, Last.fm has it, TwitPic has it, MySpace has it, Google has it, for that matter even Alltop has has that feature for so long now.

So what’s the big deal about Facebook having it? For us nothing more than another nuisance where people can find you easily using search engines.